John Cusack Quotes
My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
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The world is always in movement.
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I particularly like Hershey's chocolate - the kind which has almonds in it.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
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When I was doing all this acting stuff, all these kids, like, assumed, 'Oh, my God, you're on TV, and you probably have a lot of money.' And I was living in a garage.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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Yes, I applied a lot of what I did in football to golf.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
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At the immortal touch of thy hands my little heart loses its limits in joy and gives birth to utterance ineffable.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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America will start winning again, winning like never before.
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When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.
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Some guys seem to jump right out and win tournaments, but for me, I've been the kind of player who is getting a bit better each year.
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My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s.
